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How do I find my student's residential college?
Updated onArticleInstructors may want to check what residential college their students are associated with when coordinating events / activities for their class. Yale University's instance of Canvas provides this information through the Photo Roster tool, which contains a "photo view" and "list view" that shows the Yale ID photos of your students as well as additional information like residential college, graduation year, and major (where applicable).
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People Tool versus Photo Roster
Updated onArticleWithin your Canvas course site, you will see that you have two roster tools: People and Photo Roster. Both tools provide you with a list of user names and other important identifying information about the people who have access to your course.
This guide is designed to help you understand the uses and differences of each tool.
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Photo Roster Interface Overview
Updated onArticleBy default, when you open the Photo Roster, you will be on the "Photos" View of the Photo Roster. The Photo view will give you access to student photos as well as some filtering and printing tools.
This article will review the different components of the Photo Roster interface.
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Trouble Accessing External Application Tools on Canvas from iOS Devices
Updated onArticleiOS devices (such as iPhone and iPad) can experience issues accessing external application content and tools on Canvas. iOS devices have a specific security setting for their apps which creates an issue with login / authentication passing from Canvas to other external tools. This issue can create an endless log in loop, just fail to load the tool or content, or require the user to login again at the point of the tool.
Disabling the specific security setting for any of the iOS apps you use to access Canvas (Canvas Student, Canvas Teacher, Safari, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox) will resolve the access issue by allowing a user's authentication information to pass correctly from Canvas to an external application.
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Requesting a CanvasĀ @ Yale Site for Medical Residents
Updated onArticleThough not automatically provided, Medical Resident programs can request a Canvas @ Yale course site to use and facilitate their programs.
Instructor & Teaching Fellow Course Management Requesting Canvas Sites
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Submitting a File to a Canvas Assignment on a Student's Behalf
Updated onArticleInstructors can submit a file to a Canvas Assignment set to accept file uploads on behalf of a student in their course's Gradebook. Their submission to the assignment will include the timestamp as well as who submitted the file to the assignment. The instructor can also submit multiple files at a time for a single student, and submit beyond the availability date of a Canvas Assignment.
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Restoring Archived Content
Updated onArticleBeginning May 22nd, 2023, Yale will be implementing an archival policy for media contained in Canvas Media Library (Panopto) folders. This policy will put any material not viewed in the last 3 years into an archived state.
No material will be deleted. Any necessary material can be accessed and brought back from the archives as needed following the steps outlined below.
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Understanding Courses in Past Terms
Updated onArticleCourses that are past their Term Dates or manually set Course Participation Dates are still visible to all instructors and participants, but prevent participation or modification after that date. Courses from previous terms are organized and accessible under the "All Courses" list from the Global Navigation menu.
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Blackboard Ally: Points of Contact by School
Updated onArticleEach school at Yale University has their own points of contact that you can reach out to with questions or for additional help with either Blackboard Ally or other accessibility concerns with the design and facilitation of your course content. Please see below for your school's point of contact.
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Installing / Taking Respondus LockDown Browser Enabled Quizzes on Canvas (Student Guide)
Updated onArticleRespondus LockDown Browser is a locked browser that prevents you from printing, copying, going to another page, or using outside tools during a Canvas quiz activity. Your instructor may have elected to use Respondus LockDown Browser enabled quizzes in Canvas, which require students to download and install a special browser prior to taking the quiz. LockDown enabled quizzes will not allow you to take the quiz on a standard browser.
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